Recommended Casual Game Award

Smart 10

A roll-and-write game in which players roll dice at the start of each round to build a dungeon, and then must race against the clock and each other to plot a course through it.

Crossed Words

An abstract roll-in-write game which features multiple ways to score, bonuses to earn, and many paths to victory.

An asymmetrical board game in which one player takes on the role of the alien creature while everyone else are the stranded crewmates trying to hold out until rescue arrives.

Choose the direction to move the buyer and then roll the die. If he lands on an opponent’s rugs, you’ll have to pay. Then lay down a rug of your own! Whoever has the most money and rugs at the end of the game is the best rug seller (and the winner).

A party game in which each round players call a showdown and race to pick an action by making the right hand gesture. Be the last player standing to win the game, or kill everyone else with your fellow ghosts to be victorious.

A cooperative party game in which all players attempt to give and guess clues that point to two words in the grid at the same time.

Stay Cool is a party game all about multitasking under pressure over the course of three increasingly difficult rounds.

Shift the tiles to complete the patterns on your cards; but you must choose wisely which cards you score and which you use to move the tiles.